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...threw 168 mph, I would be answering this question from my Bentley...
With the Crimson trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the first, freshman Matt Vance was hit by a pitch to open the game, and—after Doyle threw to first multiple times—promptly proceeded to steal second. After Wilson walked, Walsh called for the double steal, and Vance slid into third under the throw from McGill, putting two runners in scoring position with the heart of the order...
Kawamoto did not like having the military around his school, but he appreciates the military values of discipline. He connects discipline with self-knowledge. Once, when he was a very small boy, his father took him in a boat out into the bay and threw him in, to teach the boy to swim. Kawamoto struggled and tried to grab the side of the boat, but his father pushed him off with a pole. Only when the boy sank did his father pull him back. "I asked him why he did not help me sooner. I thought my father was trying...
...corner of the grassy Great Court, which served as a gathering place for the lunchtime throngs, Saudi Arabian women lectured on a feminist interpretation of the Koran. In another, a black American conga drummer from Harlem spontaneously threw up her arms and shouted to the assembly, "You have changed my life!" In yet another, a raven-haired Bolivian in a felt bowler talked excitedly to a veiled woman from the Western Sahara. Each day at noon, Betty Friedan conducted an informal seminar in the cool shade of a fig tree. And nearby, a dozen black-robed Iranian women assembled...
...half-century ago, Haile Selassie was an international hero. In 1935, Ethiopia, also known as Abyssinia, consumed almost as much editorial space as it does today. But the world was worried less about its citizens than about its independence. For in that year Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini threw his Fascist legions against the East African nation...